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@shiacentral
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96subscribers
+5 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002322593081 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @shiacentral |
| Created | Between 1 September 2024 and 20 January 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 9 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 11 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 7 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 11 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/shiacentral |
Religion — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 27 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Sept 2026, 05:35 | 96 | +1 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 22:19 | 95 | +1 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 01:17 | 94 | +1 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 15:44 | 93 | +3 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 04:57 | 90 | -1 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 14:17 | 91 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:29 | 91 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 20 January 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 2 June 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
39 reactions across 18 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 48.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 19 | 48.7% | |
| 🔥 | 12 | 30.8% | |
| 👍 | 7 | 17.9% | |
| ❤🔥 | 1 | 2.56% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 18 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 39 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 20 January 2025 to 2 June 2025, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Ghadeer wasn’t misunderstood. It was ignored. When the Prophet ﷺ said, “Whoever I am Mawla to, Ali is his Mawla,” the Sahaba understood — and congratulated Ali. Umar didn’t say “friend.” He said, “You have become Mawla of every believing man and woman.” So why deny it now? https://www.shiacentral.com/post/the-interpretations-of-the-sahaba?v=2
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Opponents say Hadith al-Ghadeer was simply the Prophet addressing complaints about Imam ‘Ali (AS) in Yemen — not a declaration of authority. In our latest article, we dismantle that claim and show why the context proves the opposite. https://www.shiacentral.com/post/is-ghadeer-about-campaigns-in-yemen
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Part 2: Interpretation Did the Prophet (saw) really stop over 100,000 Muslims in the desert heat just to say: “Ali is my friend”? That’s one interpretation of Mawla — but it doesn’t hold up. This declaration happened near the end of the Prophet’s (saw) life, the same time he said he was leaving behind two weighty things. Would he gather the Ummah for a reminder they already knew? Of course not. This wasn’t a casu…
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GHADEER SERIES Part 1: Authenticity Hadith al-Ghadeer isn’t just widely narrated — it’s mutawātir. That means it was reported through so many independent chains that no serious scholar, Sunni or Shia, doubts its occurrence. The Prophet (saw) said: “من كنت مولاه فهذا علي مولاه” “Whoever I am his Mawla, Ali is his Mawla.” The question was never about whether he said it — but what he meant. https://www.shiacentral.c…
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Did Sayyida Fatima (AS) forgive Abu Bakr before her death? A common narrative claims she did—but the source of this story is al-Sha‘bi, a man whose record is filled with lies, Nasibi tendencies, and disgraceful behavior. In this new article, we dismantle the entire claim: • Did al-Sha‘bi even hear this from Imam ‘Ali (AS)? • How did he slander the companions of ‘Ali? • What did scholars say about his character an…
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What Sunnis Don’t Want You to Ask About Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal 📜🤔 For years, Shīʿa ḥadīth scholars like al-Kulaynī and al-Ṣadūq have been criticised and accused of fabricating narrations simply because some ḥadīths mention miracles or unusual events. Instead of focusing on baseless and intellectually weak criticisms, it's time we turn the lens onto one of Sunni Islam’s most revered figures: Aḥmad b. Ḥanba. Hailed as a pil…
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Exposing the Nasibi bias of al-Dhahabi — a scholar who weakened the merits of Imam Ali (as) while excusing fabricated virtues of others. As Shaykh al-Ghumari said, his agitation blinded his judgment. Let’s be aware of bias in scholarship and give the Ahlul Bayt (as) their rightful place. Stay tuned — we’ll dive into Hadith al-Tayr and ‘Ali, the Gate of Knowledge,’ next! https://www.shiacentral.com/post/dhahabi-s-nas…
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The death of Imām ʿAlī (ʿalayhi as-salām) was a turning point in Islamic history. Some grieved, others celebrated — exposing deep-rooted divisions. Learn how ʿĀʾishah reacted to his martyrdom and what it reveals about the Battle of Jamal: https://www.shiacentral.com/post/how-aisha-reacted-when-imam-ali-as-was-martyred
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📜 Exposing the Myth of Mu'awiyah the "Qur'an Scribe" One of the most repeated claims by defenders of Mu'awiyah is that he was a scribe of the Qur'an, suggesting that this role alone proves his righteousness and closeness to the Prophet (saw). But we must ask, since when did simply writing words equate to embodying their meaning? This narrative is not a reflection of historical truth, but rather a calculated Umayyad…
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📜 The Truth About Mu’awiyah: A Guide or an Innovator? Mu’awiyah has been attributed with receiving the prayer of the Holy Prophet (saw), in which he is supposedly called a guide for others. However, when we explore history and examine Mu’awiyah’s reputation, we find nothing but innovations, corruption, and a clear rejection of the Qur’an and Sunnah. His actions—altering Islamic governance, enforcing unjust policies…
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Why was Imam al-Nasa’i killed for refusing to fabricate virtues for Mu‘awiyah? Discover what top Sunni scholars like al-Bukhari, Ibn Hajar, and Ibn Taymiyyah really said about him. Read Part 1: The Missing Virtues of Mu‘awiya https://www.shiacentral.com/post/why-was-al-nasa-i-killed-sunni-opinions-on-mu-awiyah
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Sufyan al-Thawri: Who was Sufyan al-Thawri? A hadith master or a fabricator? Discover the contradictions, lies, and Nasb of a man whose narrations shape Sunni hadith collections. https://www.shiacentral.com/post/the-lies-of-sufyan-al-thawri
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @shiacentral. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 30 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“ShiaCentral” (@shiacentral), 96 subscribers as measured 30 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/shiacentral.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.